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WINTER SESSION. 



Notb — The authors of the various Papers, of which abstracts are here appended, are 

 alone responsible lor the views expressed in them. 



27 October. 

 SOCIAL MEETING. 



HE winter session of the club was inaugurated by a 

 social meeting in the Exhibition Hall. The company 

 was a large one, completely filling the available space 

 in the main hall, and comprising a good representation of the 

 membership of the club, with many friends of both sexes. 

 Tasteful floral decorations at the platform end made the hall 

 very pretty, while rows of coloured fairy lamps in the corridors 

 lent a picturesque effect to the entrance. Tea was served from 

 seven to eight o'clock at tables ranged around the main hall by 

 the lady members of the club. Thanks to the energy of the 

 secretaries and the cordial co-operation of members, there was 

 abundance of intellectual as well as social enjoyment provided. 

 There was an exhibition arranged in the hall, comprising 

 botanical, conchological, geological, and entomological col- 

 lections ; photographs, seals, and microscopic specimens. In 

 the minor hall capital displays of the X rays were given by W. 

 J. Walker to crowded and admiring audiences. Each display 

 showed the wonderful action of very high tension electricity, 

 the current being somewhere about 200,000 volts. This 

 enormous pressure is very difficult to insulate, as was shown by 

 the volume of sparks given across a space of about 2in. wide by 

 3ft. long between two insulated wires, and also by the glow 



